Isn't it possible for individuals who publish audio and are sick of this whole debate to copyright their own works and write a license to use that states the user has a right to listen to the content, but not to use it for "automatic" analysis, etc. In this case, would not the organization looking for copyright infringement be infringing on the copyright? Assuming the owner of the site is the legal holder of the copyright.
In this case, the owner of this "original" work could sue the company performing these checks for copyright infringement since they do not have a right to analyze the work. The only way they would be exempted from this restriction would be if the work was actually not an "original" work which they wouldn't know until they accessed it.
Thanks to his parent's intervention and the treatment, he now has life mapped out until he's 84.
Okay, let me get this straight. "Thanks to his parent's intervention and the treatment, he now has [replaced one compulsive behavior for another]." The need to organize your life 50+ years into the future is not far from the compulsion to spend 15 hours a day on the Internet. In fact, I would maintain that it is potentially a more destructive behavior.
It's also a 'secure' distribution medium in the eyes of many in the entertainment industry, since users can't upload content themselves
Regardless of your position on the fair-use/control of content (by fair-use I mean being able to play content you legally on whatever device, etc. you wish), this statement smells of "monopolistic" activity. Unlawful activities do not start at users uploading content. They start with users uploading content they don't own (or even before that). The idea that an organization would believe it is appropriate to say a service is only 'secure' because we're the only ones who can submit content to it goes against everything that a free-market society believes. That one single quote does not say that users can't pirate content; rather, it says that we're the only organization with the rights to create and distribute our content.
In my opinion, that is the big story here. Not the decision to choose one delivery method over another.
I bet in 6 months you'll have severe difficulty finding a new PC with XP on it...
This, at least, is a non-issue. Buying a new PC in 6 months will eliminate the major reasons for wanting to keep XP: a) compatibility (I'm sure most of the major issues would be ironed out in that time) and b) needing a new computer to run it well (this is probably a myth to a certain extent but, duh, you're buying a new computer).
For those who aren't buying a new computer, though, I tend to agree - it's not a compelling upgrade. However, that doesn't mean that most people are going to switch to Apple/Linux/etc - those without a need to upgrade are most likely content with what they have (probably Windows XP).
So, is this doom and gloom for Vista? Almost certainly not. It wont be long before new PC's come with Vista (new computers from Dell, etc already come with the upgrade option) and I'm sure that's where Microsoft makes all it's money anyways.
Actually this is one of the worst things about the upgrade cycles. The purchase of a new PC for anyone who is a low-end user should occur in the next 3-6 months or should be put on for a few years. Just like when XP was released, the ability of those actually "fixing" the computers to be able to walk someone through a fix will be significantly reduced. For example, as one who does help fix things from time to time, I still have to turn on the "classic view" in an XP control panel to find things because the XP default view makes absolutely no sense.
Imagine this situation. You buy a new PC for your parents for Christmas next year and it ships with Vista. Your PC is still XP. Mom calls and can't figure out why her printer isn't working. You tell her to click here then here... She says, I don't see that. You end up having to make a trip when a phone call used to fix the problem.
Everyone repeat after me....A forced upgrade to a new interface is not an improvement!
Can this be used to check the validity of journalist comments? Often times, their opinion of what a politician said are further from the truth than the politicians original statement.
If your trying to argue in favor of Evolution, your premise here is flawed. Although they call it the law of gravity not the theory of gravity, it still is not proven. In fact, it's been proven that the "law of gravity" is not 100% accurate. The idea that pull on two objects towards each other is based on some force has been proven to be incorrect. A more correct approximation to this is Einsteins theory of curved space (basically space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curved). Where objects are trying to move through the universe in a straight line but the space is curved them based on their mass and they therefore move toward one another very much a three dimensional version of the coin things in the mall where the coins travel in ever decreasing circles until they finally fall into the hole in the middle.
I don't know how you approach this, but I know of an individual who had such a move proposed to them a while back. The move was from East Coast to Central Plain states. The individual was considered a top performer by all definitions (insert Subject Matter Expert in multiple fields here). Because the corporation was making changes and the local East Coast group was not happy, the manager losing the individual gave a "lowest rating" for him on departure. As a result the individual who was helping the corporation was put on a long-term pay freeze. I guess my point is that I would probably consider talking to them about what kind of guarantees would be put in place to avoid the "team losing me stabs me in the back" issue. Maybe something like, performance review from time of announcement until after you are there for 3 months do not get considered or something like that; maybe something along the lines of a raise or bonus for doing the move so that you are guaranteed something.
Why would a market share report, whose audience is investors, want to report on that?
Sure, Unix boxes last longer... plenty of studies have established that... but these people are tracking sales figures.
One would assume that investors would care about this considering the fact that most systems with significant longevity have a high percentage of annual maintenance contracts.
On the other hand, if the company makes a diverse set of products that simply cannot reasonably be approached with a single language and platform, then it would be a mistake to try. Engineering should be split into separate divisions if the problems are that different and separate staffs should be maintained for each.
I have to disagree with this comment. While there is some merit in a division of teams and detailed skill sets, it has been my experience that teams which dive deeply into one subject area while avoiding all others are very near useless when it comes to resolving issues. I have done quite a bit of coding, but my primary area of expertise is Communications. In the groups I've worked with, the most benefitial resources are the ones who know a little coding, a little security, a little systems administration, a little communications, and then have a specialty or two.
For example, a Sysadmin who only ever did Sysadmin work generally has no knowledge of how to write a script that will update all accounts, how to configure the network interfaces with the proper subnet masks or convert the mask if it's given in cidr notataion, how to disable the proper services, etc. As a result, that Sysadmin has very little value to the team.
My experiences with programming languages are the same. If you say you only ever want to use one language, you have removed your value even as a programmer in that language. There simply are times when a PHP programmer looks at a problem and can say, "usually I would do something this way in PHP, but Java would do it this way and give me a better result. I can either do it java or do it an alternative way that is more Java-like in PHP". That is where the knowledge and understanding of the second, third, fourth, etc. language makes the programmer valuable.
I don't think that was the point of the "language" barrier that was being suggested. I have personally experienced a language barrier in dealing with a call center located in New Zealand. Yes, they speak and Queens English, but the US does not. We speak Americanized English with quite a few idioms that don't make sense to others. After about 10 years of having family members from Canada and New Zealand and a couple of years with best friends that moved here from U.K., I can tell you that english != english. Yes, some of this does ring true with different areas of the US. But for the most part, that is accent, not difference in meaning of words and phrases.
Actually POTS has been incorrectly used in telecommunication circles to refer to any analog phone service. However, the correct definition of POTS is simply what it says, Plain Old Telephone Service. An interesting point to this is that very few people still have POTS service. It's easier to define POTS by defining what it is not. Some characteristics that create a non-POTS analog service are:
Touch Tone - Yes a few people don't have this, but most do so... most people do not have POTS service
Centrex features - Mostly used in lines for a company to replace a business phone system
Any other feature except for rotary dial and dial tone to include:
Call Waiting (or Call Hating for any of those still using modems)
Cancel Call Waiting
Caller ID
Call Forward
Any other special feature
So basically a very small fraction of the public still has POTS.
Is there a separate user database for slashcode? Logon doesn't seem to work and even a "send my password" doesn't recognize the login id. Perhaps this is just a Beta/Test issue, but it would be nice to test with real-world configurations and customizations.
If this is the case and you doing system adminstration for 30 people will only take 1% of your time, then the sysadmin work load / person is around 0.0003. This would mean that a company in a similar industry with a staff of 100,000 employees would only need a sysadmin crew of 30 people. When you think of it in those numbers, it immediately becomes apparent that the numbers are not even close.
From another angle, I would ask your boss why he has an admin, a marking/sales person, and/or an accounting person. The accounting work for a 30 person company has to be only a 1% work load for him. He can do all the administrative work in 1% of time. And there is absolutely no reason he can't take care of the sales and marketing items in another 1%. That's only 97% of time. What's he going to do with all that 97%?
As has been said before, there are real professionals who do systems administration. There are some people who can do reasonably well at sysadmin, network admin, network design, systems design, programming, etc. They are rather rare and they can't do all of them at the same time. For a company your size, it would probably make sense to get a person who specializes in sysadmin and can program a little bit (understands the code enough to be able to read and possible fix some stuff) and the two of you would work as backups to each other.
Still, you'd need something lime X000 km^2 to provide all of the UK's electricity this way. With that amount, people will start complaining. Also, their site gives no estimation of cost per kw. A salt ocean with high waves is a very machine-hostile environment, so these devices will have a very finite life time, and at the sizes they give, they are anything but cheap.
It looks like you where headed down the same direction I was when I first read this. Please someone tell me I'm missing something here because I hate to believe that the people putting this together are that crazy.
First off let's look at the costs. I see them saying that the delivery of units will cost $10.12M. This group also delivers 2250Kw. So I come up with a number of $4497/Kw for the generation. If you try to pay that back over 3 years, it costs $0.17/Kwh (around here the prevailing ratest for power generation are closer to $0.04/Kwh or $0.05/Kwh) And that does not assume that there are any maintenance costs (which is rather ludicrous when you consider a mechanical device in salt water.
Now for the environmental question. Is this truly a benefit? If I setup enough of these units to generate say 10% of the worldwide power requirements, what happens to the ocean currents? Do I not create a severe ocean current problem that could radically change the climate of given portions of the earth? I seriously think this would have a more far reaching effect than the emissions that currently exist.
I guess as I see it this way: It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it will be practical without some serious modification the design. We basically have a prototype situation here. Try it out. Find out what happens. Then talk about building more. Anything else is pure hype and lacking in the necessary data to extrapolate the benefits and risks.
Yeah. An interesting point here. At work I have to access web sites that are IE only for business reasons (most of them intranet sites). I use Firefox for almost everything else. However, every once in a while, I accidently go to a link in IE just because it happens to be open. If it weren't for the incompatibility of sites, I would get rid of using IE. Everyone always talks about the people who try out Firefox and still use IE in terms of IE market share, but I personally believe more of that effect is based on a forced use of IE in a few instances.
Version 4.0.0 is laying a foundation for the future, and should be seen as a technological step forward with new internal architectures and the addition of Fortran 95.
While I know the benefits of Fortran 95 are a big thing, saying it's a technological step forward to incorporate for the first time a 10 year old standard seems a bit ridiculous. When I first saw this article I had to check my calendar to make sure it was May 1st and not April 1st.
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Isn't it possible for individuals who publish audio and are sick of this whole debate to copyright their own works and write a license to use that states the user has a right to listen to the content, but not to use it for "automatic" analysis, etc. In this case, would not the organization looking for copyright infringement be infringing on the copyright? Assuming the owner of the site is the legal holder of the copyright.
In this case, the owner of this "original" work could sue the company performing these checks for copyright infringement since they do not have a right to analyze the work. The only way they would be exempted from this restriction would be if the work was actually not an "original" work which they wouldn't know until they accessed it.
Okay, let me get this straight. "Thanks to his parent's intervention and the treatment, he now has [replaced one compulsive behavior for another]." The need to organize your life 50+ years into the future is not far from the compulsion to spend 15 hours a day on the Internet. In fact, I would maintain that it is potentially a more destructive behavior.
Regardless of your position on the fair-use/control of content (by fair-use I mean being able to play content you legally on whatever device, etc. you wish), this statement smells of "monopolistic" activity. Unlawful activities do not start at users uploading content. They start with users uploading content they don't own (or even before that). The idea that an organization would believe it is appropriate to say a service is only 'secure' because we're the only ones who can submit content to it goes against everything that a free-market society believes. That one single quote does not say that users can't pirate content; rather, it says that we're the only organization with the rights to create and distribute our content.
In my opinion, that is the big story here. Not the decision to choose one delivery method over another.
This, at least, is a non-issue. Buying a new PC in 6 months will eliminate the major reasons for wanting to keep XP: a) compatibility (I'm sure most of the major issues would be ironed out in that time) and b) needing a new computer to run it well (this is probably a myth to a certain extent but, duh, you're buying a new computer).
For those who aren't buying a new computer, though, I tend to agree - it's not a compelling upgrade. However, that doesn't mean that most people are going to switch to Apple/Linux/etc - those without a need to upgrade are most likely content with what they have (probably Windows XP).
So, is this doom and gloom for Vista? Almost certainly not. It wont be long before new PC's come with Vista (new computers from Dell, etc already come with the upgrade option) and I'm sure that's where Microsoft makes all it's money anyways.
Actually this is one of the worst things about the upgrade cycles. The purchase of a new PC for anyone who is a low-end user should occur in the next 3-6 months or should be put on for a few years. Just like when XP was released, the ability of those actually "fixing" the computers to be able to walk someone through a fix will be significantly reduced. For example, as one who does help fix things from time to time, I still have to turn on the "classic view" in an XP control panel to find things because the XP default view makes absolutely no sense.Imagine this situation. You buy a new PC for your parents for Christmas next year and it ships with Vista. Your PC is still XP. Mom calls and can't figure out why her printer isn't working. You tell her to click here then here... She says, I don't see that. You end up having to make a trip when a phone call used to fix the problem.
Everyone repeat after me....A forced upgrade to a new interface is not an improvement!
Can this be used to check the validity of journalist comments? Often times, their opinion of what a politician said are further from the truth than the politicians original statement.
So when do we get the press release from Microsoft saying there goes the "Network Neighborhood"?
Because few use links and noone has linx. Prehaps a better question would be:
Why isn't anyone using l{ynx,inks}?
You mean the fact that it makes clothing soft?
If your trying to argue in favor of Evolution, your premise here is flawed. Although they call it the law of gravity not the theory of gravity, it still is not proven. In fact, it's been proven that the "law of gravity" is not 100% accurate. The idea that pull on two objects towards each other is based on some force has been proven to be incorrect. A more correct approximation to this is Einsteins theory of curved space (basically space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curved). Where objects are trying to move through the universe in a straight line but the space is curved them based on their mass and they therefore move toward one another very much a three dimensional version of the coin things in the mall where the coins travel in ever decreasing circles until they finally fall into the hole in the middle.
Should I expect to see a dialog box that says, Windows Live is updating your personal settings everytime I connect?
I don't know how you approach this, but I know of an individual who had such a move proposed to them a while back. The move was from East Coast to Central Plain states. The individual was considered a top performer by all definitions (insert Subject Matter Expert in multiple fields here). Because the corporation was making changes and the local East Coast group was not happy, the manager losing the individual gave a "lowest rating" for him on departure. As a result the individual who was helping the corporation was put on a long-term pay freeze. I guess my point is that I would probably consider talking to them about what kind of guarantees would be put in place to avoid the "team losing me stabs me in the back" issue. Maybe something like, performance review from time of announcement until after you are there for 3 months do not get considered or something like that; maybe something along the lines of a raise or bonus for doing the move so that you are guaranteed something.
How did you get my WEP key?
One would assume that investors would care about this considering the fact that most systems with significant longevity have a high percentage of annual maintenance contracts.
I have to disagree with this comment. While there is some merit in a division of teams and detailed skill sets, it has been my experience that teams which dive deeply into one subject area while avoiding all others are very near useless when it comes to resolving issues. I have done quite a bit of coding, but my primary area of expertise is Communications. In the groups I've worked with, the most benefitial resources are the ones who know a little coding, a little security, a little systems administration, a little communications, and then have a specialty or two.
For example, a Sysadmin who only ever did Sysadmin work generally has no knowledge of how to write a script that will update all accounts, how to configure the network interfaces with the proper subnet masks or convert the mask if it's given in cidr notataion, how to disable the proper services, etc. As a result, that Sysadmin has very little value to the team.
My experiences with programming languages are the same. If you say you only ever want to use one language, you have removed your value even as a programmer in that language. There simply are times when a PHP programmer looks at a problem and can say, "usually I would do something this way in PHP, but Java would do it this way and give me a better result. I can either do it java or do it an alternative way that is more Java-like in PHP". That is where the knowledge and understanding of the second, third, fourth, etc. language makes the programmer valuable.
I don't think that was the point of the "language" barrier that was being suggested. I have personally experienced a language barrier in dealing with a call center located in New Zealand. Yes, they speak and Queens English, but the US does not. We speak Americanized English with quite a few idioms that don't make sense to others. After about 10 years of having family members from Canada and New Zealand and a couple of years with best friends that moved here from U.K., I can tell you that english != english. Yes, some of this does ring true with different areas of the US. But for the most part, that is accent, not difference in meaning of words and phrases.
So basically a very small fraction of the public still has POTS.
Is there a correlation between Hurricane Alpha or Hurricane Beta and the number of mosquitos left by any flooding?
Slashcode has been slashdotted!
For all those wishing to read the original article, the contents have been replicated in a modified format here.
Is there a separate user database for slashcode? Logon doesn't seem to work and even a "send my password" doesn't recognize the login id. Perhaps this is just a Beta/Test issue, but it would be nice to test with real-world configurations and customizations.
Valid point.
How do you save an indangered species? Let people eat it. Then it will be farmed and man will make sure that it is not wiped out.
I think he meant that it was 48 seconds / person / week.
If this is the case and you doing system adminstration for 30 people will only take 1% of your time, then the sysadmin work load / person is around 0.0003. This would mean that a company in a similar industry with a staff of 100,000 employees would only need a sysadmin crew of 30 people. When you think of it in those numbers, it immediately becomes apparent that the numbers are not even close.
From another angle, I would ask your boss why he has an admin, a marking/sales person, and/or an accounting person. The accounting work for a 30 person company has to be only a 1% work load for him. He can do all the administrative work in 1% of time. And there is absolutely no reason he can't take care of the sales and marketing items in another 1%. That's only 97% of time. What's he going to do with all that 97%?
As has been said before, there are real professionals who do systems administration. There are some people who can do reasonably well at sysadmin, network admin, network design, systems design, programming, etc. They are rather rare and they can't do all of them at the same time. For a company your size, it would probably make sense to get a person who specializes in sysadmin and can program a little bit (understands the code enough to be able to read and possible fix some stuff) and the two of you would work as backups to each other.
It looks like you where headed down the same direction I was when I first read this. Please someone tell me I'm missing something here because I hate to believe that the people putting this together are that crazy.
First off let's look at the costs. I see them saying that the delivery of units will cost $10.12M. This group also delivers 2250Kw. So I come up with a number of $4497/Kw for the generation. If you try to pay that back over 3 years, it costs $0.17/Kwh (around here the prevailing ratest for power generation are closer to $0.04/Kwh or $0.05/Kwh) And that does not assume that there are any maintenance costs (which is rather ludicrous when you consider a mechanical device in salt water.
Now for the environmental question. Is this truly a benefit? If I setup enough of these units to generate say 10% of the worldwide power requirements, what happens to the ocean currents? Do I not create a severe ocean current problem that could radically change the climate of given portions of the earth? I seriously think this would have a more far reaching effect than the emissions that currently exist.
I guess as I see it this way: It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it will be practical without some serious modification the design. We basically have a prototype situation here. Try it out. Find out what happens. Then talk about building more. Anything else is pure hype and lacking in the necessary data to extrapolate the benefits and risks.
Yeah. An interesting point here. At work I have to access web sites that are IE only for business reasons (most of them intranet sites). I use Firefox for almost everything else. However, every once in a while, I accidently go to a link in IE just because it happens to be open. If it weren't for the incompatibility of sites, I would get rid of using IE. Everyone always talks about the people who try out Firefox and still use IE in terms of IE market share, but I personally believe more of that effect is based on a forced use of IE in a few instances.
While I know the benefits of Fortran 95 are a big thing, saying it's a technological step forward to incorporate for the first time a 10 year old standard seems a bit ridiculous. When I first saw this article I had to check my calendar to make sure it was May 1st and not April 1st.